SUMMARY:

• Experienced in Solutions/Systems Architecture and System Engineering of high availability servers and for mission critical and enterprise applications hosted on Enterprise class Data Center
• Conduct/coordinate meetings and present the Infrastructure Solution to all Stakeholders to Sign - off on Solution.
• Responsible for Comparative Costing Analysis for different Solution options and obtaining approval from Business/Budgeting.
• Proficient in Data Center Migration, System Administration, System planning, Coordination, Commissioning, Setting up security hierarchy and capacity planning.
• Troubleshoot technical issues that arise during the Build of the Project.
• Managed the Purchasing Activity to enhance the existing hardware/software capacity with different vendors.
• Coordinate with various Technology Towers (Data Center, Network, Storage(SAN/NAS) Support, and Build) required during Project implementation.
• Responsible in providing analyses of new and different technologies and in recommending efficient and cost-effective solutions to meet specific technical or business requirements
• Effectively manage the Project from inception until handover of the Infrastructure to Production support and registering the Hardware/Software component to the different Groups (Asset management, Budgeting, etc.,)
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and work independently as well as a team member.
• Architected Infrastructure solutions with no single points of failure. Including architecting failover solutions across multiple data centers.
• Excellent communication skills across all levels.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: Sun T5240/20. IBM P6 550, SunFire series (SF 3800/4500/4800/15 k/25k), SunFire V440/880, Sun Ultra, Sun Netra X1, Sunfire T series (T2000/T1000, Enterprises series), IBM F50, X-Series and HPQ J and B Series Servers, Tape libraries like L100, L25 and Storage Arrays,Exadata5-2

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5.1, HP-UX 11.00, IBM AIX 5.3, Linux 7.x and Windows 2003/2008/2012.

Web/App Services: Web Service: Apache 1.4/2.x, IBM Http Svr 2, IIS5/6/7/8

Web Application: Microsoft .Net framework 1/3/4, WebLogic 8/9/10, Tomcat 5.5, WebSphere 6.X,Lync,Exchange

Technologies: NFS, NIS, NIS+, DNS, DHCP, RAID and VERITAS Cluster.

Database: Oracle 10g/11/12c SQL 2005/2008Storage management (SAN/NAS): Raid 0, Raid 1, Raid 0+1, Raid 1+0 and Raid 5, Using VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS File System (VXFS), VERITAS Foundation suite EMC Ecilion.

Backup: VERITAS NetBackup 4.5, 5.0 and 6.0.

Virtualization: VMware VSphere, LDOM,LPAR,PPAR

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Montvale, NJ

Solutions Integrator

Responsibilities:

• Support the Migration mission Critical Client/Customer facing applications to Oracle Exadata and Linux environment for Money Transfer Ecosystem.
• Provided the technical guidance to other cross-functional teams such as project manager, business analyst, Platform leads etc.
• Responsible to Provide various artifacts TDD( Technical Design Document), Solution document and Physical/Logical
• Work with Various Teams to build Infrastructure working with DBA,SA, Networking, Storage (SAN/NAS)and Data Center Team as per the Project needs.
• Coordination point of contact for IT solutions for complex Migration Activity.
• Facilitated communication among SMEs / tech leads who create their individual designs
• Evaluated and selected the appropriate technologies, ensuring full compatibility with all other appropriate existing and anticipated new technologies, based on enterprise standards, requirements and needs.
• Served as internal subject matter expert and responsible for tracking technical and business trends, assessing their impact and developing strategies to leverage this information to build solutions and mitigate the risks.
• Plan the retirement and transition of technologies at the end of their lifecycle.
• Collaborate across different teams to bring together ideas and gain consensus for the technical direction of the applications within the domain
• Instrumental in managing relationships with Vendors, enterprise architecture, technical infrastructure and application architects of other domains.
• Developing the monitoring, back up and HA/DR Plan for the Money Transfer application
• Represent the Application team during ARB (Architecture Review Board) with Senior Leadership Team.

Confidential, East Windsor, NJ

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible/Owner for the Detailed Data Center Migration Planning Workbook (MPW)/Strategy for the MGE/MHF Separation Project for totaling 3000 Hosts(1200 Physical+ 1800 Virtual)
• Designing the Migration Solution based on the Business Requirement with various working sessions with Application Owners/Network/Security/System Engineers/Application Engineers located at different Geographical Location.
• Migrated the Windows 2003/2008(.net framework 4), Linux, Unix Based Application/Infrastructure.
• Migrated the Core Infrastructure (LDAP, Active Directory, DHCP,DNS) Services.
• Worked with Various Teams as a Solution Architect during the Build of new Data Center
• As a Lead Technical Resource, managed the Various Kind of Server/Application/Storage Migrations(Lift and shift,V2V,P2v,New Build) based on the Business and Application
• Criticality.
• Resolving the End to End Issue during/Post Migration to avoid any Business impact and successfully completed all the Migration ahead of the Schedule.
• Responsible for gathering/evaluating/preparing the Network Sep-link Checkpoint/CISCO FW related requirement and reviewing with Network Engg/Security Team for Approval/implementation and provide the appropriate connectivity.
• Identify all the Network(LLB, GLB, DNS, Firewall Vendor Access/Partnernet)related requirement and implemented

Confidential, Mount Laurel, NJ

Systems / Operations Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible managing the CET technical landscape, specifically as it pertains to enterprise-scale applications/solutions. The role will design, implement, and operate systems and software architectures that support core organizational functions.
• Maintained product operability, reliability, and other key operations drivers including high availability, capacity management, performance, usability, problem management, and end to end monitoring, recommending hardware and software configurations and solutions, planning upgradeability, defining, implementing, improving, and measuring technical and operations systems success metrics, optimizing ongoing technical operations across application teams.
• Assess business and functional requirements for projects, capacity, systems or services and establish and deliver technical solutions.
• Perform infrastructure capacity planning and ensure system environments are adequately scalable for anticipated growth and availability.
• Establishing and monitoring milestones, communicating essential information, coordinating actions, obtaining expert input, reviewing open issues and action items, contributing information to team meetings, partners, and peer groups to drive efficiency.
• Define business and operations systems success metrics, developing and conducting tests of system integration, functional layers, and entire system, fixing problems
• Deployed HW/ Infrastructure Solution Design (TRD/ISD) for .Net/Windows 2008 and SQL 2005/2008 Technology and prepared/presented ARB (Architecture Review Board)
• Worked on the Data Center Consolidation for Various Windows/Unix Based Technology.
• Responsible for working with Data Center Team for the Application/Operation requirement.
• Data Center Migration Lead from Third Party to Confidential Owned Data Center
• Create sustainable and optimized operational application support models and Run-Book.
• Coordinate product selection requirements definition, research technology options to address, establish evaluation criteria, manage evaluation of technologies and make recommendations.
• Interacting with operations personnel to define clear and attainable objectives and timelines for technical implementations.
• Supported the Exadata migration for Various Versions Oracle Database . Defined and conducted Migration Assessment (plan, Strategy, Patching, Preparation Work, Risk, and Downtime) and Actual migration working with Various Vendors/Team.
• Conduct and lead design activities including logical network design, server topology, application design, database design, DR/HA design, and environment placement.
• Act as the primary liaison to coordinate all infrastructure and operations delivery items and serve as an operational quality gate.
• Define, deliver, and manage customer experience monitoring capabilities for core applications and services including performance, availability, transactions and more.

Confidential, New York, NY

Solutions/Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked both within project teams and independently delivering Infrastructure solutions to build, deploy and secure Enterprise solutions for projects of varying complexity and scale. Worked under the direction of a Solution Planner and Project Manager and also acted as the technical lead depending on the project and their level of complexity. Responsible for the overall solution design and capacity planning. Responsible for Delivering IDD (Infrastructure Design Document) after understanding Business/Application SLA.
• Conducted/coordinated meetings and presented the Infrastructure Solution to all Stakeholders to Sign-off on Solution.
• Responsible for Comparative Costing Analysis for different Solution options and obtaining approval from Business/Budgeting.
• Responsible as an Architect to migrate the following applications to increase performance, enhance features, and accommodate future growth and vendor supported Cost Effective software/hardware. Migration included building development, QA, production and DR environment with clustering, virtualization and data replication to provide data center redundancy:
• From Apache 1.3, Weblogic 8, Solaris 8 and Oracle 8 (8 TB database) and IBM MQ 5 to Apache 2.0, Weblogic 9.2, Solaris 10, Oracle 10g and MQ 6.
• From Apache 1.3, Websphere 4, and Oracle 8 to Apache 2.0, Websphere 6.0, Oracle 10g RAC on Solaris platform.
• From IIS 5, .NET 1.1, SQL Server 2000 to IIS 6, .NET 3.0, SQL Server 2005/2008 on Windows platform.
• From Iplanet 6.1, Weblogic 9 and Oracle 9 to Apache 2.0, Weblogic 10 and Oracle 11g RAC on Solaris platform.
• Design the Load Runner Testing Infrastructure t to test the various Applications.
• Provided guidance and solutions to buy new business for LOB and afterwards integrate in JPMC standards and strategic middleware to improve performance and reduce run rate and also satisfy regulatory requirements.
• Leading effort to introduce new technologies to save money and improve performance. Onboard applications to reduce license cost, introduce LDOM virtualization for SUN servers and VMWare to virtualized Windows environment. Also worked with performance and monitoring team to improve application performance using tools from Quest and BMC.
• Worked with Vendors to understand current and future roadmap (IBM (Websphere, Rational products), SUN (Hardware, Solaris, Java), BEA (Web Logic), Red Hat (Linux), Oracle, Microsoft (SQL Server, .NET), VMWare (Virtualization), Quest (Monitoring)), which helped to provide best possible solution to different LOB.
• Solution Review Committee member to pursue the Quality check of All Solutions before going to present to LOB.
• Deployed the Exadata Appliance in RDC as per the Bank Standards..
• Formalized the Process of Requirements Gathering, Engineering Engagement Process and Solution Design Process and Run Book created for all the Applications.
• Recommend the required hardware/software based on the Application/Business SLA requirement
• Assisted the Project Manager to get optimum hardware/software Bundle in-line with Firm Engineering/Architect Standards.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Virtualization Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Web/App, Network and DBA Teams to accomplish the Data Center migration within required timeline.
• Installed, configured & maintained Sun Solaris 9/8/7/2.6 on various SUN servers
• Performed Jumpstart and Kickstart installations in Solaris and Linux respectively
• Experienced in migrating the existing Sun Solaris servers from 8 to 10
• Configured and installed global and non-global zones, resource sets using Resource Manager, zoneadm in Solaris 10.
• Key Team member of Virtualization initiative.
• Installed and configured Veritas Cluster on Solaris, Veritas NetBackup for backup & Veritas Volume Manager 4.1 for Mirror & Raid 5.
• Installed & configured the LVM in Linux. Created Volume Groups and Physical Volumes
• Configured kernel parameters and installed Oracle 8i in Solaris 2.8.
• Handled Package and Patch Administration, and software installations.
• Configured NIS/NFS/DNS.
• Installed and configured HBA and PowerPath on Solaris hosts.
• Configured Samba Server in Linux and Solaris to achieve cross - platform file transparency.
• Upgraded the Pre-version Solaris to current version
• Performed Server IP consolidation.
• Completed tests of High Availability of all operating system/software to ensure the continuity of service.
• Assisted the development team and reviewed the required maintenance tasks.
• Reconfigured the File system/Network Interfaces and resolved the Security issues.

Confidential, Salem, NJ

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Member of Unix Systems Engineering team responsible for offsite support and onsite projects that involved Floor Planning, implementing and administering enterprise level backup and recovery in multiple data zone of heterogeneous 500 plus nodes in various models of high-end servers running Solaris 2.x, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and various models of tape libraries / tape drives.
• Maintained, supported and configured Sun Solaris 2.x on Sun Enterprise / Sunfire Servers, IBM AIX on IBM F50 Servers and assigned user rights to access network resources.
• Managed Users/Groups, local and NFS using the TCP/IP applications such as Telnet, FTP, and R-logins.
• Implemented and administered various security tools like RBAC, SETUID, SETGID, ACL’s and Sticky bits.
• Maintenance of DNS, NFS, NIS Samba and Apache servers on Sun Solaris HP-UX and IBM AIX platforms.
• Responsible for server installation, upgrades, patch administration and daily maintenance.
• Performed backup and recovery consolidation on Solaris and IBM AIX and HP-UX.
• Monitored backup and recovery availability and performance to ensure recoverability of file system, application, and database systems.
• Performance tuning of the operating systems, application, backup optimization and troubleshoot performance issues.
• Participated in implementation of RAID’s 0/1/5 for creation of Logical Volumes using Veritas Volume Manager.
• Key member in installation and Administration of Veritas Cluster Server environment on Sun Enterprise Servers.

Confidential, Newark, NJ

UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managed users for SUN Solaris and HP-UX Servers.
• Configured Solaris Servers for patrol installation.
• Performed day to day Server Administration tasks.
• Installed Open SSH on Solaris and HP-UX Servers.
• Upgraded SUN Solaris and HP-UX Server kernels.
• Installation, configuration, migration and user management on Solaris and HP-UX.
• Performed Backup and Restore Operations.
• Installed and configured Solaris Servers Security by installing TCP Wrappers to secure open ports, closing unwanted ports.
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of DNS servers, FTP servers, NFS, Samba Servers, NIS, NIS+ and Apache Web servers on Sun Solaris and HP-UX platforms.
• As an Application support Administrator performed investigation and correction of error conditions for applications on both Test and Production systems. Communicated daily with middleware development groups and other support groups.
• As a Team Member of support desk, responsible for providing timely and accurate 24x7 support.
• Maintenance of hard drives using VERITAS Volume Manager.
• Regular disk management like adding / replacing hard drives on existing servers, workstations, partitioning according to requirements and creating new file systems or growing existing one over the hard drives and managing file systems.

Confidential, New York, NY

Jr. Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Provided on site Technical Support for both Desktop Users and Server environments.
• Installed Windows NT/2000/XP Workstations and Servers.
• Supported Citrix server farm, while configuring and managing Security
• Configured End User and System policies in Active Directory environment.
• Resolved issues related to Permission and share in Active Directory environment.
• Managed Shared resources such as application software, printers and security features.
• Setup user profiles and user accounts on Windows 2000 Server.
• Proposed system improvements and hardware recommendations
• Performed routine network startup and shutdown procedures, maintained control records.
• Operated master consoles to monitor the performance of computer & network systems
• Installed applications, software and hardware on end client systems.
• Installed and maintained IIS server 3.0/4.0
• Installed, configured and maintained MS Outlook 98/2000
• Configured and maintained Print and File Servers.
• Provided application specific to users.
• Configured Dial-Up and VPN on access for mobile users.
• Monitored daily Backup using NetBackup and Veritas utilities.

Confidential, NJ

Network and Desktop Support

Responsibilities:

• Configured and removed Database user accounts in Oracle environment
• Supported Oracle user and managed database Backups
• Tuned and monitored database performance
• Installed, configured and maintained Networking software/hardware in Microsoft Windows NT workstation/server 3.51/4.0 and Windows 95/98.
• Created domain users and group accounts, home directories, logon scripts, assigned permissions to files/folders, and audited log files
• Diagnosed hardware and software problems, and replaced defective components
• Installed and configured Remote Access Service. Provided technical support to remote users and configured PCs and Notebook computer for Dial-up Networking.
• Responsible for data and image transfer using Ghost.
• Provided and Help Desk support to end users.